Cotton Cultivation. 
I 
The climate and soil of the northern part (down to 32° 
of latitude) of the Argentine Republic is most appropriate 
for the production of cotton, principally in the provinces 
and territories situated on the banks of the rivers Parana, 
Uruguay, and Paraguay, in the Provinces Santa-Fé. 
Entre Rios, Corrientes, and the territories of Misiones, 
the Chaco, and Formosa. 
In the central and western provinces it also yields 
good crops; but in some of them, such as San Juan, La 
Rioja, and Catamarca, irrigation is indispensable, while 
in the eastern, and especially in the Chaco, the vegetation 
period of the plant is, as a rule, generally favoured by 
frequent and abundant rains, but the harvest time coin- 
cides with dry weather. 
In the colonization epoch, or that of the Spanish do- 
minion, cotton cultivation was very much diffused in 
in all the calid parts of the ancient Vice-Royalty of Buenos 
Aires—that is to say,the northern part of the Argentine 
Republic, Paraguay, and Bolivia. 
The people in that epoch knew the art of spinning 
cotton and weaving common stuffs for their own use and 
commerce, to such an extent that, due to the almost com- 
plete absence of currency, in consequence of the extreme 
